I don’t think the entropy example is a good one.
Nothing is given to the high temperature object to transfer energy to the low temperature object. So it can’t be modelled as both being different agents with different tradeoffs where each agent is trying to maximize some function.
Instead I think it’s a bog standard equilibrium.
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I don’t think the entropy example is a good one.
Nothing is given to the high temperature object to transfer energy to the low temperature object. So it can’t be modelled as both being different agents with different tradeoffs where each agent is trying to maximize some function.
Instead I think it’s a bog standard equilibrium.